Blue is beautiful in itself: it is associated with the depth of the sky or water, calms, creates a feeling of coolness and tranquility. With the help of blue, you can relieve nervous tension, focus on something important.
But dressing up in clothes of only one color or keeping the interior in one tone is rather boring. Even if it is such a wonderful color as blue. You can play with a combination of blue and other colors, and then the image will sparkle in a new way.
Monochromatic combinations
The easiest option is to combine deep blue with related hues that vary in saturation, such as cyan, purple and green. You can experiment by changing the brightness of the base color and adjacent tones. It can be interesting to try to combine a blue base item with details of aqua, neon, azure, sky blue or cornflower blue.
Contrasting combinations
For bold and creative people, monochromaticity seems too traditional and inexpressive. They prefer contrasts. Well, blue can be perfectly combined with orange. This will add dynamism to the image. It is important to remember that when combining contrasting colors, balance is important: you cannot use them in a 50/50 ratio. If blue is chosen as a base color, then the proportion of orange should be no more than 30%.
It is possible and necessary to combine not only "pure colors", but also their shades, which will look even more interesting. So, an ensemble of ultramarine color combined with orange details will look bright and joyful. To create a calmer look, you can try the "union" of sky blue or lilac with light brown - this will also be a contrasting combination.
Color wheel
It will help to figure out which colors are combined with each other and which are not, the color wheel, based on the color wheel of I. Newton, who for the first time decomposed a light beam into a spectrum using a prism.
It is believed that a good combination is given by colors located opposite each other (contrasting combination) or in close proximity to each other (monochrome combination). In this case, blue will go well with orange, as well as greenish-blue and violet-blue.
The worst combinations are those that are in the color range through the color. So, a combination of blue and purple, as well as blue and cold saturated green will look bad.
Combination with achromatic colors
Achromatic, i.e. colorless black and white are considered to be ideally combined with all shades of the spectrum. Indeed, blue with white or light blue with black will look very elegant. The only condition: if the chromatic color is saturated, dark, then the black next to it should be light, i.e. gray. So, the combination of dark blue with black will be perceived as extremely gloomy, but the same dark blue with white or light gray will look very elegant. So, white in combination with pale blue looks extremely inexpressive, but with a bright, saturated blue color of any shade, it will favorably set it off.
